A Mobility Management Plan for the National University of Ireland, Galway

1. A Mobility Management Plan for the National University of Ireland, Galway

2. A leading independent multi-disciplinary practice • Aim is to find long-term solutions • Integrated approach • Over 200 staff; offices in the UK and Ireland • Study team based in Galway and Bristol NUIG About the Company

3. Mobility Management Planning Group Extensive Experience: • Employment • Education • Residential • Leisure Higher Education: • University of Glamorgan • Heriott-Watt University • Stirling University • Winner of Welsh National Transport Award 2004 Our Track Record

4. Nuig Expansion • Efficient site utilisation • Ensure maximum return for investment • Prepare for future growth • Planning consents Planning for Growth • University Masterplan • Mobility Management Strategy • Mobility Management Plan • Parking Management Policy Queen Elizabeth Park Strategic Planning at NUIG

5. United Kingdom • Extensive uptake • Demonstrable best practice • University of Bristol • University of Glamorgan • University of East Anglia Europe • Widespread uptake • Established practice Glamorgan Bus Service Peer Review

6. What is Mobility Management? • Management Tool • Safeguarding Access • Maximise On-Site Resources • Minimise Impact on Local Network • Engage With Stakeholders • Partnership Working Queen Elizabeth Park For NUIG

7. To ensure access and improve choice of transport options to staff /students to the NUIG; • To ensure the optimal utilisation of NUIG car parking resources; • To reduce number of cars arriving at the NUIG; and • To reduce the environmental impact of the NUIG’s travel demands. NUIG Outline Objectives for NUIG

8. Identify Opportunities • Site Assessment • Existing transport infrastructure • Marketing and Awareness • Promotional Strategy • Engaging Stakeholders • Reference Group • University Community • Wider Galway ‘Community’ • User Groups Public Consultation Initiating Mobility Management at NUIG

9. Mobility Management ‘Roadshows’ • First stage of awareness raising • Engage stakeholders • Provide information • Tackle prejudice and misinformation • ‘Prime’ audience for further stages, including travel surveys • Involve User Groups NUIG Marketing and Data Collection

10. Travel Surveys • Staff (and Student) body • Attitudinal and qualitative data collection • Electronic delivery and response • Traffic and Parking Surveys • Multi-modal access counts • Parking supply and demand • Analysis • Questionnaire data • Home address and accessibility assessment Data Collation and Analysis

11. Synthesise Thinking Into Draft Plan • Report on Data Collected and Analysis • Devise Objectives and Targets • Mobility Management Plan Strategy • Management and Resourcing • Marketing and Promotion • Measures • Implementation Programme (Phased with University Masterplan and Parking Policy) • Monitoring Strategy • Stakeholder Consultation Surveys Identifying a Mobility Management Strategy

12. Compliments Mobility Management Plan • Coherent vision for parking resource • Key aspect of successful demand management • Phased strategy to reflect University Masterplan NUIG Parking Management Policy

13. Work Schedule

14. The plan will seek to reduce car reliance – it will not be anti-car. • Mobility Management Plans are effective - an average 18% reduction in single occupancy vehicles is recorded in UK and Europe. • Mobility Management Plans make commercial sense – a cohesive strategy that encompass all elements of access, travel and parking. • Effective consultation allows staff input to designing the right solutions. Benefits